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	ADULT PROGRAMS SCHOOL TOURS FAMILY PROGRAMS CAMPS SCOUT PROGRAMS BIRTHDAY PARTIES HORTICULTURE THERAPY PROGRAMS CERTIFICATE PROGRAM		Children's Programs   - ADULT - FAMILY - CHILDREN - REGISTRATION - Girls Scout Programs - Camps - Birthday Parties PLEASE REGISTER BY PHONE AT 757-441-5838 FOR ALL THE PROGRAMS AND CLASSES LISTED ON THIS PAGE.   Girl Scout Fun Day Programs Girl Scouts can discover the great outdoors on Saturdays through seven entertaining and educational programs. Pre-registration is required. Call to register or for more information.  Full payment is due upon registration. Campouts are held rain or shine, but may be cancelled at the garden's discretion and a full refund will be given. Refunds:  50% of the payment will be refunded if a written notice is emailed, mailed, or faxed to the Education Department two weeks prior to the start of the campout. All Girl Scout activities are by pre-registration only.  Please call 757-441-5838 to for more information or to register.    Girl Scout Cam Out May 20 - 21  Brownie Outdoor Adventurer Junior Outdoor Creativity Cost: $30 per person Bring your tent and sleeping bags for a campout in our Enchanted Forest!  While here, Scouts will complete all of the activities to receive a Try-It or Badge.  Meet other troops, share songs, make smore’s around the campfire and go on a night hike.  Our staff will provide all meals and troop leaders do not have to be camp qualified. Register early, these events fill up fast!   Brownie Summer Camp June 19-23 9:00 am- 4:00 pm $180 per scout ($155 for Norfolk Botanical Garden members) Brownies can experience our popular NatureKids summer camp program with Girl Scout “flair”.  Spend the week exploring our 155 acre garden, constructing crafts, playing games and making new friends. Have a “daytime campout” in our Enchanted Forest and set sail on a boat ride around Lake Whitehurst  While having “fun in the sun” Brownies will earn at least one Try-It and fulfill several requirements for others. Morning and afternoon snacks are provided; Scouts should bring their own lunches.      Girl Scout Programs Brownies and Juniors can spend a Saturday morning or afternoon discovering the Garden through our Scout programs.  The cost is $8 per Scout and includes a two hour guided program, the appropriate Try-It or Badge, a journal and a narrated tram ride.  A minimum of 6 Scouts required. Brownie Try-Its:               Plants                                           Water Everywhere                                           Eco-Explorer                                           Earth & Sky Junior Badges:                  Water Wonders                                           Finding Your Way                                           Earth Connections                                           Wildlife And, beginning in September of 2006, explore our new World of Wonders Children’s Adventure Garden with our Saturday Scout Programs.  Brownie Girl Scouts can earn the Around the World Try-It and Juniors can earn the Humans and Habitats Badge. Camps - NatureKids School Tours - Bring your students out for a day at the Garden. Click on this link to see what we have to offer.   NatureKids Summer Camp 2006 Monday – Friday - June 19 – August 25 - 9am -  4pm Camp Day: Campers are dropped off at 9 am (no earlier please). Pick up is at 4 pm (extended care is not available). Cost: For all regular camp sessions (except sessions 1, 3 & 9) cost is $190 ($160 for NBG members) per session.  Send an additional camper and receive $25 off the weekly fare. Ages: 5 to 10 (no exceptions please)  We recommend that 5 year-olds be rising first graders. Lunch: We supply morning and afternoon snack; you provide lunch and a beverage. Summer Camp Session Themes Week 1: June 19 - 23 “Brownies in the Garden” *Registration is only open to Brownie Girl Scouts - Brownies can experience our popular NatureKids summer camp program with Girl Scout “flair”. Have a “daytime campout” in our Enchanted Forest, play games from around the world and go on a plant safari.  Brownies will earn a Try-It and fulfill requirements for others. Week 2:  June 26 - 30    Mad Scientist - Experiments galore will fill this week of camp.  The garden will be our laboratory as we discover everything from why the leaves change color to what the expression “water off a ducks back” really means.  Use plants to create wild and wacky creations like no others ever dreamt of! Week 3: July 5 - 7 Red White and Blue *Cost is $115 ($100 for members) for this 3-day camp - Celebrate Fourth of July week with American traditions from baseball to apple pie.  Dream up an election campaign for your favorite cartoon character and dress like your favorite President or famous American in our parade on Friday.  Choose from red, white or blue flowers to make your very own container garden. Week 4: July 10 - 14 Pirate Week - Don’t miss this wet and wild week!  Dress like a pirate as we cruise Lake Whitehurst on our boats.  Find out what lives at the bottom of Friendship Pond and make a ship for our pirate regatta! Don’t forget Friday is sprinkler day! Week 5:   July 17 - 21 Tall Tales and Yarns - Whether you want to be a wise wizard, a princess or a treasure-seeking pirate, we’ll spend the week making our favorite stories come to life.  Hear tales from all around the world, from Australian Aboriginal dream time stories to “happily ever afters”. Campers will create the costumes then plan and perform a play for parents at the end of the week! Week 6: July 24 - 28   Around the World in 80 Days - It’s a wild world out there and Norfolk Botanical Garden is bringing it to summer campers.  This week will highlight our summer exhibit “Around the World in 80 Days”.  Discover plants that grow in far away lands and how people use them in their daily lives.  Climb aboard a submarine, ship, and train and arrive somewhere packed with adventure! Week 7: July 31 - August 4  Super heroes Week - Superman helped save the planet and so can we. Campers love being creative with their art in the Annual Eco-Art contest.  Find new ways to reuse trash by creating games, artwork and outfits! Week 8:  August 7 - 11   Garden Safari - For the critter curious camper we’ll find out who makes the Garden its home.   From anthills to bald eagle nests we’ll see the habitats of many different creatures great and small.  Bug hunt for caterpillars in our Butterfly Garden, feed the fish and turtles in Friendship Pond and find out what lives under the logs in the Enchanted Forest. Week 9:  August 14 - 18 Art Around the World with “Abrakadoodle” *Cost is $240 ($215 for members) for this special offering - Come join in the fun and take an educational and creative trip with Abrakadoodle® Art Education. We will visit the jungles of Ecuador when we create Exotic Birds, India as we create a Festival Elephant, the Inuits from the north where we learn to sculpt a Polar Bear and finish back home with a Colorful Rainbow that reflects the many colors of our world. Week 10: August 21 - 25 Blast From the Past - Use the Garden as a time machine as we visit times past. Make fossils, learn about mythical characters of the ancient Greeks, and spend a day living like the colonists did at Jamestown settlement.  Make time warp fashion from laurel crowns to a tie dye t-shirt using plants dyes!                                                                                                          New This Year:  “Tween” Camps-  Ages 10-13 Session I July 5 - 7    Art & More with Abrakadoodle® $180 ($165 for members) - Discover many ways to create art with the Garden as inspiration.  Paint like Georgia O’Keefe, explore Japanese art using bamboo brushes, use watercolors to bring a pond to life.   From sculpting and painting to jewelry making campers will bring home enough artwork to have their own exhibit! Session II July 10 - 14 Survivor $240 ($215 for members) - Survive the great outdoors with this week of teamwork and fun!  Campers will wear tribal bandanas with pride as they learn to “live” outdoors.  Start a fire without a match, build a shelter with only branches and leaves, and learn to tie knots.  From being lost on a deserted island to deep in the jungle they’ll be plenty of chances to learn how to use nature around us to have fun.   Home School Programs   Science in a Room without Walls Friday, May 12 - 9:30am – 1:30pm As part of our Birds, Blossoms and Blues Festival, this home school program features a variety of programs related to birds, including bird identification and bird habitats. Students will discover how to identify favorite songbirds, shore birds and Virginia’s state bird. We’ll help you identify some of our local birds, as well as ones you might see during spring migration. Start your very own Life List. Students will visit different Explorer Stations to learn about owl pellets and to make a bird feeder. Cost: $8 per child & one parent (siblings 4 and older $5 each) ($4 per child & one parent for NBG members) Registration deadline May 5 Friday, November 3 - 9:30am – 12:30pm Come see the Garden in all of its autumn glory.  This is the time of year when plants, animals and people start to get ready for the coming cold that winter brings.  While here you will see what it is that makes a leaf change color, discover how our native wildlife prepares for winter, learn why we have four seasons in Virginia, and find ways to identify trees without their leaves.  Cost:   non-members:  $8 per child (includes 1 parent), $5 for each additional sibling over 4 or adult.  members:  $4 per child (includes 1 parent), $4 for each additional sibling over 4 or adult.    Homeschool Takeover Day   Friday, September 8   -  9:30am – 2:30pm This is your opportunity to have WOW, the World of Wonders: A Children’s Adventure Garden all to yourselves.  We will have our Garden Teachers leading hands-on learning activities throughout covering topics such as food chains and habitats.  Not only that, but we are also inviting other area museums including the Contemporary Art Center, The Hermitage Foundation, The Ernie Morgan Environmental Center, Nauticus, and The Old Coastguard Station to join in the fun and show you what exciting programs they have to offer your children.  As if that weren’t enough to fill your day, we will also have a professional photographer on hand to shoot “school pictures”, using our beautiful natural setting as a backdrop.  Cost:   non-members:  $10 per child (includes 1 parent), $7 for each additional sibling over 4 or adult. members:  $6 per child (includes 1 parent), $6 for each additional sibling over 4 or adult. *please note* additional costs will be charged for school photos, and depend upon selected package.   To register for any of the events listed above, please call us at 757-441-5838.    Children's Birthday Parties Make Birthday Party Memories at NBG! Celebrate your child's birthday with a theme party in the Garden. Choose from the Ugly Bug Ball, and Treasure Hunt. Programs are designed for children ages 3-10. The $150 birthday party fee includes: 1 hour nature program for the first 20 people (Each additional guest (adult or child) $5) Use of classroom for 1 hour Favors for each child Call 757-441-5838 for details or to schedule a party!
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